Name: Kaze
Age: 18
Appearance:
Kaze is a tall being, standing at eight feet tall. Everything about him says 'intimidation', from the claws on his fingers to the teeth in his mouth. His body is covered in black scales while his chin to the tip of his tail are royal purple colored plates. His eyes, which glow the slightest bit, are a deep crimson while his horns and claws are pure white.

Power: Dragon's Blood

• Enhanced Strength: His degree of strength is exceptionally high, able to flip or throw vehicles.
• Enhanced Senses: Being bestial his sense of smell and hearing are enhanced. Taste and touch are reduced while sight remains largely untouched.
• Armored Body: The scales and plates lining his body are exceptionally tough, up there with steel but still able to be damaged.
• Heat Resistance: Being a reptile he enjoys the heat, sometimes even just curling up in flames.
• Heavy: While he does have wings, he's simply to heavy to actually fly unless he's dropped from a really high point.
• Cold Weakness: He despises the cold. It either makes him hibernate, or if he's exposed long enough it will kill him.
• Permanent: Unfortunately he has yet to 'turn it off'. So he can't even hide what he is like most other people.

Background:
Kaze honestly doesn't remember much of his past. Doesn't remember any family, what he looked like before his abilities showed, nor his homeland. There was just a tag on his wrist with a name on it while he wandered around the wilderness aimlessly. Word got out about some giant beast wandering some forest somewhere and he was eventually confronted by some of the people who worked at the Safe Haven. He reluctantly went with them, mostly because he understood his differences from others and that someone overzealous would probably shoot him. Figures he remembers what guns are but not anything deemed important by normal society. While learning in the school he had hoped to find a way to control his ability to actually 'turn it off'. So far he either hasn't found the trick or simply can't.

Name:Serenity Black
Age:17
Appearance : 5'8" with a slim but curvaceous body, blonde hair that is dyed purple in places and hits just at her waist. Green eyes, pale skin which can only be seen on her face as she covers up from modesty and because her abilities while mostly limited to her hands can still send her brief snips if she brushes against anything with bare skin.
Power
Psychometry- The ability to read any object or any person's past with just a touch. Due to this power she also has ability learning which allows her to temporarily learn skills from the object or person, omnilingualism which allows her to understand any language, and Medical detail which allows her to learn a person's health.
Limitations – Serenity has few limitations when it comes to her abilities but she does tire easily and she has very little control over her abilities since their acknowledgment is so new to her.
Background:
Serenity was just a normal girl, or at least that’s what everyone wanted to believe, until she accidentally touched her teacher at school and learned that she had cancer. To the horror of her parents They were notified about what had happened and without even speaking to their daughter they had opted to have her sent to Haven too keep her ‘safe’. As a child She had often known about illnesses of her friends and had told them or their parents, which had caused several people of their acquaintance to move. Often she had understood languages she had no prior knowledge of and could in fact speak near fluent in many as a young child but her parents had just ignored it all until it couldn't be ignored any longer. Serenity had taken to wearing flesh colored gloves when she hit high school, as the information she could get from touch could be a bit overwhelming at times. She doesn't really have any friends, and tends to spend a lot of time alone. She is always covered except her head, never letting any more skin show than is necessary. She is nervous to start at Haven but curious to see others like her as well.

Name: Cole Ryder

Age: 16

Appearance:



Abilities/Limitations: Anatomical beast-like transformation that comes with strong, razor-sharp claws and teeth, as well as enhanced speed and agility. His transformation is not triggered by emotion, and does not involve a significant increase in his overall size. He also has heightened senses of hearing and smell, which are passive abilities that are present even when he is not in his beast form.


Short Backstory: Cole was born into a wealthy family with his parents being well-known business figures. They owed their affluence to Prism International, a global hotel chain which they owned. Growing up, he had never shown signs of having any superhuman abilities, until one unfortunate night when he was snatched off of the street by a couple of abductors who presumably planned on demanding a ransom from his well-to-do parents. Restrained and shoved into the trunk of a car, Cole's ability activated for the very first time. The released beast of the previously struggling teenager tore through the car and lashed out at the stunned and terrified captors, ripping out their throats before Cole reverted back to his human form. Coming to a realization of what he was and what he had done, he fled the scene and never returned home either, not knowing how to face his family. The traumatized teenage boy was then found in his blood-stained clothes, aimlessly wandering the streets soon after, and brought to the Haven, where after contacted his parents requested he stay at.

Name: Claudia Rhoads
Age: 15
Appearance (pictures accepted):


Power: Claudia is a living volcano capable of generating molten lava from her skin and manipulating it to a certain degree. As a required secondary ability she is completely immune to the negative effects of intense heat.

Background: Claudia grew up in a trailer park in a small rust belt town with her three job working single mother. She was a quiet and withdrawn child, raised more by the neighborhood than her mother due to work, and didn't make a lot of friends. Then she set a school-bus on fire and everything went to hell.

It wasn't her fault. She was shy and frightened and her mama hadn't been able to drop her off like she'd promised and strangers were so loud and pretty soon the six year old had melted through the floor and given three other children sever burns. Her mother was quietly encouraged to ship her child off to a safe haven, but she didn't. This was her kid and she could home school her if she quit one her jobs and cut back here and there on things like food and electricity. This went about as well as could be expected.

Then, the pair heard of an opportunity. A way that they could stay together and still make enough to live. A secret game where people like Claudia could fight for money. She was scared at first. What child wouldn't be? She lost a lot, but she won some too, and when she won they were able to put good food on the table, buy clothes that weren't second hand, and get new appliances to replace the ones that broke. So, gradually, Claudia got into the swing of things. She started winning more often, and they had good things more often, and her mother smiled more often. By the time they were traveling around the country, hitting different underground competitions from sea to shining sea, they'd long since left their ratty old trailer behind and were living the good life on their winnings.

Then they got busted in Vegas at one of the biggest competitions, her mother was thrown in prison, and Claudia became a ward of the state and was shipped off to the Safe Haven. She's been there for two years now taking back lessons to get her up to something approaching a high school level education.

Name; Andrew Holt
Age; 17

Appearance;
Andrew Holt stays a little bit taller than the average height of an average teenage boy, mainly because of his lean and skinny appearance. His hair color is in the shade of deep ocean blue which tends to match his eyes. Perhaps the very part of his body that he has quite so favored.
In most occasions, you will see him wearing very warm and baggy or visibly overlapping clothes, scarves, and even gloves!

Power; ‘ICE’

Andrew’s body temperature had been cursed to stay at a chilling negative 10 degrees which really can’t be helped. This aspect doesn’t bother him but he chooses to wear warm clothing as the cold temperature can be easily felt by people who stay close to him and in hopes that it may keep in some of the chills.

His powers include everything that has to do with controlling ice as long as there are traces of liquids around. And his only known limitations are, well, intense heat. Inevitably, heat is his only weakness and will painfully sting his skin.
Another weakness Andrew hold is his human strength. He has a lean build up, but when it comes to showcasing strength, he may not be the best soldier to be sent to the field. Least to say, this is a characteristic of him that he dearly wishes to enhance. Or perhaps it may only be hiding somewhere inside him.

Background; Andrew grew up a shy and timid young man and in quite an unhappy household. His parents were complete strangers to the curse that laid upon their son since birth and the father since then, treated him more like a house border rather than a son with only a mother left to love him. But because of his curse, it was hard to give him the affection and reassurance that the young man needed. But what his mother always made sure is that instead of calling the misfortune a ‘curse’, he calls it his ‘power’.

Believing there’s more to what meets the eyes, and the father with no hesitation, all three agreed to send Andrew to the so-called academy that is assumed to be of help for the young man. Deep down, Andrew Holt truly wishes that the academy would help him, at any points possible, help him live and experience a normal human life, free from any discrimination.

Appearance
Ellis' most notable feature is his monochrome aesthetic. Pale skin, white and black hair, light grey eyes, and a white, grey, and black wardrobe give him a ghostly look. He was born to a Japanese father and American mother, yet doesn't resemble either of them very much. His facial structure is similar enough to his mother's, and he has the same hair texture as his father, but he seems to have been drained of any color that would further relate him to his parents. This baffled the doctors his concerned parents took him to, but they could not find any medical issue present and chalked it up to a random genetic mutation.
Despite playing outside in his youth and joining the soccer team in high school, no amount of sunlight exposure added any color to his person. He did develop a keen strategic mind, excellent stamina, and a lightly muscled build. He stands at 5 feet 7 inches tall. His overall appearance is very androgynous, and as such he has grown used to being mistaken for a girl. Ellis isn't particularly offended by this, and will often wear his hair up, paint his nails black, or wear jewelry, further adding to some people's confusion.
When using his power, Ellis' eyes begin to take on a golden color. The longer he uses his power, the more color he gains. His eyes glow bright gold, his hair becomes fully black (not just the ends he dyes), and his skin gains a tan pigment.

Power
Psychic Energy Manipulation: the ability to create, shape and manipulate psychic energy in various ways, including manifesting in material form.
Ellis is able to draw psychic energy from other living beings so long as he can touch them through skin-on-skin contact. The duration of contact determines how much energy is transferred. 3 minutes of contact is enough to cause a human to pass out from psychic energy fatigue. Energy can still be taken even when a person is in this state, but it is highly dangerous and could result in a coma or death.
Ellis is able to manifest this energy into weapons that can deal physical harm as if they were made from steel. He can create a dagger or shuriken with his own psychic energy, or a sword, shield, and larger weapons if he draws energy from an outside force. The more he trains the more weapons and psychic attacks he will learn.

Limitations
At this point, Ellis cannot choose whether or not to draw energy from a creature he touches. As such, he must be careful not to touch his bare skin to the bare skin of others. After using his own psychic energy or that of others, he becomes extremely fatigued and will pass out if he overexerts himself. He is unable to create psychic energy and must draw from existing sources, meaning himself and other creatures.

Short Backstory
Ellis was born to unbelievably wealthy parents. His father was a famous fashion designer know on a world-wide level and his mother was the CEO of a very successful modeling agency. While his parents traveled the globe, Ellis lived in Japan with his aunt and uncle. They raised him alongside their daughter, Haru, and his childhood memories are of belonging to a happy family. When he entered school, problems arose. Ellis was bullied by his peers for his pale looks. They would call him albino, or tell him he looked dead, like a ghost. The children were ignorant and afraid of catching whatever condition he had, so no one would be his friend. Haru, being a grade older, did her best to stick up for Ellis, but a dreadful first semester went by with no improvements. Ellis begged to be homeschooled.
He was sent to Maine so his American grandparents could homeschool him there. It went fairly well, and Ellis was still able to visit Haru and his Japanese family frequently. His parents made sure to see him as well, but he rarely felt a connection to them. He was resentful that he could not be raised by his own parents, but happy that he did have a family regardless. When he reached high school, Ellis tried attending school again. His classmates were more mature at this age, and while there were some bullies, he found himself making enough friends that it didn't bother him as much.
During his junior year, Ellis' power manifested. The mutation that caused his unusual appearance lied dormant until he needed it most. A band of particularly violent bullies cornered him outside school and drew a knife on him. They wanted to see if his blood was white too. Scared and angry, all Ellis could think about was how much he wanted to be able to defend himself with a weapon of his own. A slash was taken at his arm, and dark red blood came from the wound. Ellis screamed, and his eyes began to light up. A dagger made of crackling golden energy formed in his hand, and Ellis threw it at his attackers with no hesitation. It stuck into the hip of one of them, and they all ran away. Ellis passed out against the wall, and while the dagger he threw disappeared, the wound remained.
Ellis lied. He told the authorities, his family, his friends, anyone who asked that he had no weapon. That one of the teens had stabbed himself on accident. With no proof against him, Ellis was cleared of all accusations made against him. He was scared of his newfound ability, and even more frightened when he discovered he drained the energy of whoever he touched shortly thereafter.
After months of restless research, Ellis decided the best place for him to go was the Safe Haven. After graduation, Ellis told his family he was going to a university far away and promised to write as frequently as he could. He's hoping to learn what his power is and how to control it so that he can keep his family safe from himself.

Name: Sarah James

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Appearance:


Powers: Water
Sarah can control water, but only when she’s near a source. This means she knows when she’s near water, or the general direction she should look in, but she cannot trace the plumbing in the walls, so to speak.
Sarah has some control over her powers, and has even begun training herself. She cannot keep things up very long, and has problems focusing her attention. She also loses her shit when she gets angry.

Personality: Sarah is anything but shy. She is a rowdy girl who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. She doesn’t seek the spotlight, but somehow it usually finds her. Sarah is fun loving and intelligent. She uses humor as a shield, but once you get through this you’ll never find a more loyal friend.

Background: Sarah grew up in a lighthouse on a small island off the coast. She loved living near the sea, though it was an isolated area. She is an only child, and her parents home schooled her. Not because they were overprotective, but simply because it was easier than making the trip to the mainland every day. She was enrolled in the local High School as an online student, and most teachers were very accommodating.

The family found out about her powers the one time Sarah was really upset. Sarah was 12 and always stressed. Something about the sea made her restless, but her parents attributed it to puberty and tried to move on with normal life. Sarah wanted to move away from the water and its constant pull, wanted to go to school, but simultaneously feared the other children. During this stressful time, her father was in a serious accident, and Sarah did not know how to deal with her emotions. He was in the hospital, and she was on her little island. In a flurry of frustration, fear, feelings and tears, she blew up the plumbing. Water came pouring out of the walls, the shower and toilet were destroyed and during the long minutes it took her mother to shut off the main water supply, the house seemed to cry along with Sarah. Thankfully, her father recovered, and the cottage was rebuilt.
These days, there’s no running water in the house itself. Behind the cottage, there’s a small fenced off area with a structure in the centre. This structure houses the shower, toilet and laundry room. A small tunnel underground connects both buildings.

Sarah’s parents researched the whole thing online, and discovered that Sarah is one of many children who face similar challenges. This discovery did not change their love for their daughter, and the family remains close and loving.

After intensive training with her mother, Sarah now heads away from the house, towards the sea, when she loses control. She now understands her connection to the water, and the way it calls to her, and being near water calms her. And she can let go of her emotions and mess with the waters around the island without hurting anyone.
That’s why her parents built the “washhouse” on the other end of their property. Sarah spends most of her time studying for school, or working on controlling her powers and emotions. She has never lost control like that again, at least, not in the house…

Trying to guide and teach her daughter as best she could, Sarah’s mother spent hours and hours online, looking for ways to help her daughter. When the Safe Haven academy came up for the 6th time that day, she clicked the link and read with increasing awe. Later that night, after Sarah had gone to bed, she discussed things with Sarah’s father.
The next day, they suggested it to Sarah. The thought of leaving left her conflicted. Being around people and unseen water all the time scares her. But her wish to understand and control her powers more fully won out in the end, and here she might actually fit in.

Scritch scritch scratch. Sophie has extendable claws that she can use to scratch at whoever bothers her. However, it’s not just whoever, but whatever. With the claws comes the temptation to scratch at something, to just rip at something. She can control that urge, but oh boy, is it tempting just to drag those claws through that pillowcase.


As light as a cat, with footsteps to match, Sophie is often very quiet with her movements, often receiving the joke that she should wear a bell so people can hear her coming easier. The lightness does not just apply to footfalls, but to actual falls; she can drop from a considerable height without hurting herself, so long as she lands correctly. But if you could fall from a cliff and live, would you jump? She certainly wouldn’t.


Sophie, due to her extra set of ears, has hearing better than most. As these ears are pointed forward, the hearing is typically much better from the front, is still better from the sides, but is, although still beneficial, not as efficient from behind. The problem with this extra hearing is that loud things can get very loud. If something was purposefully loud for the intent of mistreating her, then that would not bode well.


Meow? Sophie can communicate with animals and understand them, having a natural understanding of even new animals’ languages and speech patterns. With this knowledge, she can effectively manipulate animals into doing her bidding - when she wants to, that is. At the same time, this means that she hears their insults. Rude.


Sophie is able to turn into a feline at will. Sometimes she will do it for comfort, sometimes for fun. There will even be days where she’d rather just spend time as a cat than as herself. Her cat form is a black furred, white footed kitty, and she can’t turn into anything else.


A one in a gazillion chance as an experiment said never to work, students were surprised to find that they had managed to merge a human egg with a cat’s sperm and had gotten them to connect. A surrogate mother for the egg carried it all the way until the child within was born - and then like an unwanted cat, was thrown away to fend for itself. And that she did, young Sophie fending for herself. The Safe Haven was exactly that in Sophie’s eyes - a Safe Haven. A place for her to live that wasn’t the streets, a place for her to grow.

Name: Vera Sorenson
Age: 15
Appearance:
Abilities/Limitations: Mimicry
Vera has the ability to copy the traits of both living and nonliving objects that she touches. The copying is temporary and fades away after a short period of time, depending on how long she spent touching it. To protect herself and others from harm, she wears special gloves made from a power-nullifying compound, since her power is not one she can turn on and off at will.

-When Vera touches an inanimate object, she takes on the properties of said object temporarily. For instance, touching a steel bar will turn her into steel, or a steel-like substance. This does not work on objects she cannot physically touch, like the air, and the transformation only occurs on direct contact with her hands; the effects of indirect contact are too negligible to matter.

-Vera's abilities are more pronounced on living subjects, ranging from plants and animals to other humans and superheroes. Upon touching someone with super powers, she will be gifted with a copy of said powers for a period of time. There is no immediate effect on non-powered human individuals. Prolonged contact will cause her appearance to shift closer to the subject she is copying, starting within the minute. It is theorized, however, that if she spends too much time in contact with another subject her appearance will be altered permanently and the subject will begin to break down at a cellular level. Vera has refused to test this aspect of her powers. This mimicry ability WILL occur on indirect contact, though it takes much longer for the effects to manifest.

Short Backstory: Vera was adopted by a pair of dads when she was barely a year old, one a daring international archeologist and the other a bookish museum curator. Needless to say life was rarely if ever boring, and her family made enough money that they never had to worry too much about finances or losing their home. Things were pretty normal until she broke away from a kiss with her girlfriend one day to find that they suddenly had the same eyes and hair color.

The prognosis came back the next day that she had powers, and things went from bad to worse for Vera; she was pulled out of school as her powers progressed, she had an ugly breakup after her girlfriend announced she didn't want to be in a relationship with a freak show, and she had to wear boxes on her wrists so she wouldn't accidentally touch something when she wasn't paying attention. Luckily, she was picked up by Haven not too long after her powers developed, gifting her with the nullifying gloves as a sign that they could help her live with her new abilities. One can only hope.